I'm trying to use shortcut3 for a series of shortcuts and when I try to set an icon for the image it doesn't work. So what would be the code for shortcut3 for a shortcut using an icon designation ?? And can Shortcut3 be hooked to an xLabel ??

if you have xlabel, you don't need shortcut3 (or any other shortcut module). Furthermore, shortcut3 is afaik unfinished and severely undocumented.

What West said. But if you go to Shortcut2 you could use .icon=c:\Path\to\file.exe,1

I ended up not using shortcut at all and just switching over to xLabel with a left click event and then using a bang to get the same effect. I did get the icons to work though. Thanks =).

please tell me you didn't do something like !Execute[$email$]